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has instead made other gestures to remember the victims. Romano, Spitzer and other victims families led a 45-year campaign for a comprehensive memorial to their loved ones in editLefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press. She was rebuffed for decades, she said, often being told that politics do not belong at the Olympics. 6 attended by members of the German and Israeli governments, the Olympic committee and the victims families. Spaenle, the Bavarian culture minister, met Spitzer and other victims families in 2012, months after the London Games, at a ceremony at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where the hostage situation came to its tragic end. It was created by Otl Aicher, the designed and director of the visual conception commission. B 0 Shane gould Swimming G 3 S 1 B 1 More Gallery Games Results Archery Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoe Slalom Canoe Sprint Cycling Road Cycling Track Diving Equestrian Dressage Equestrian Eventing Equestrian Jumping Fencing Football Gymnastics Artistic Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing.

Image, a rendering of the Munich Massacre Memorial, which is set to open next week. The officials take an oath, for the first time at the Games of the Olympiad an oath is also sworn by an official. There were several magnificent sporting performances at the 1972 Games, notably by Mark Spitz who won seven gold medals and broke seven world records. September 2017, photo Christian Horn, a memorial honoring the twelve people killed in the hostage standoff at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich is set to open on Wednesday in the city's Olympic Park. 5, 1972, at the poorly secured athletes village by Palestinians from the Black September group. Progress started to come shortly thereafter. Ilano Romano, left, and Ankie Spitzer, who both lost their husbands in the 1972 attack, in London in 2012. Athlet Günter Zahn lights the Olympic Flame.